MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX
vs
PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.62 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 7.48 TFLOPS.

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil has 3584 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.53 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 10.93 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 1 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil is based on the GCN 5 architecture and is equipped with 56 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX GPU PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT Based on AMD RX Vega 56
Navi 10 XLE GPU Chip Vega 10 XL
RDNA 1 Architecture GCN 5
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 56
2304 Shader 3584
64 Render Output Units 64
144 Texture Units 256
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil has a 8 GB large HBM2 graphics memory and the memory clock is 0.800GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type HBM2
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 0.800 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 1.6 Gbps
336 GB/s Memory bandwidth 410 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 2048 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX has a turbo clock of 1.620 GHz. The turbo frequency of the PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil is 1.526 GHz.

1.280 GHz Base Clock 1.308 GHz
1.620 GHz Boost Clock 1.526 GHz
1.50 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 100 °C.

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

160 W TDP 210 W
195 W TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX are cooled with a Air cooling.

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 3 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
28 dB Noise (Idle) dB
33 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil supports HDCP in version -- and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version --
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 2x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 2x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
MSI Mystic Light LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX is 42 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil is 42 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

297 mm Length 316 mm
141 mm Height 150 mm
42 mm Width 55 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
922 g Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX was released in Q1/2020.

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil published in Q3/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

-- Part-no AXRX VEGA 56 8GBHBM2-2D2HD/OC
Q1/2020 Release date Q3/2017
279 $ (Reference) Launch Price 399 $ (Reference)
7 nm Structure size 14 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX
6 GB GDDR6
29 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming MX
6 GB GDDR6
54 fps (avg)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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